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Women’s political participation in electoral processes requires targeted support to overcome gender discrimination. Key strategies for enhancing gender balance in electoral processes include: working with political parties to promote gender sensitive policies and practices to foster women’s leadership; targeted outreach and support for women to register to vote and safely access polling stations; guarantee of protection from election related violence and harassment; the use of quotas and temporary special measures to increase women’s representation; effective technical and financial support to women candidates and political leaders; and engagement of male champions for women’s empowerment and gender equality.

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29.11.2018

Georgia elects Salome Zurabishvili as first woman president

Salome Zurabishvili has won Georgia's presidential election, becoming the first woman to hold the office.With nearly all votes counted, the French-born ex-diplomat had 59% of the vote with rival...

Bahrain will field a record number of women candidates in the upcoming parliamentary and municipality elections to be held on November 24, although two of the three incumbent female MPs have decided...

Indian women are voting more than ever. Will they change Indian society?

Are Indian women voting at higher rates than before?Women in India are casting their ballots more frequently, and in greater numbers. Women’s turnout has actually been higher than that of men in two-...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins, becoming youngest woman ever elected to the US Co...

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her race for a U.S. House seat in New York’s 14th District on Tuesday, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.The 29-year-old political...